The 150th anniversary of the first shots fired at Fort Sumter is April 12, 2011. In order to commemorate this event Peru State College's Phi Alpha Theta will be hosting a two day undergraduate conference on the PSC campus. This conference will be interdisciplinary and encourages topics such as:

• Economics
• Art
• Music
• Medical Technology
• Literature
• Psychology/Sociology
• History of the Civil War

There will be 1st prize of $500 each in all four catagories: Papers, Posters, Poetry, and PowerPoint Presentations. There will also be 2nd prizes of $100 each awarded in each category.

This conference will provide social science/history undergraduate majors and other undergraduate students studying in the region with an opportunity to participate in an undergraduate conference event and gain experience in:

• evaluating abstracts for proposed papers/posters/ power point presentations/poetry
• writing and presenting academic papers /posters/ power point presentations/poetry
• organizational and leadership skills
• opportunity to travel
• networking opportunities